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SWSC Impact factor 2015: 2.846

Details: Published on 16 June 2016

Thomson-Reuters just published the 2015 Impact Factors. The 2-year Impact Factor for SWSC, based on articles published in SWSC in 2013 and 2014 and cited in 2015, is 2.846 (2014: 2.558; 2013: 2.519).

The Immediacy Index, based on articles published in SWSC in 2015 and cited in 2015, is 0.308 (2014: 0.857; 2013: 0.600). As SWSC is a rather new journal, 2013 was the first year that Thomson-Reuters listed it in its Journal Citation Report.

13th Edition of the European Space Weather Week, Oostende, Belgium, 14-18 November 2016

Details: Published on 01 June 2016

The 13^th Edition of the European Space Weather Week will take place 14-18 November 2016 in Oostende, Belgium. The ESWW is the main annual event in the European Space Weather calendar. It is the European forum for Space Weather as proven by the high attendance to the past editions. The agenda will be composed of plenary/parallel sessions, working meetings and dedicated events for service end-users. The ESWW will again adopt the central aim of bringing together the diverse groups in Europe working on different aspects of Space Weather.

For more information click here.

Topical Issue "Brightness Variations of the Sun and Sun-like Stars and Resulting Influences on their Environments", submission deadline extended to 15 February 2016

Details: Published on 04 December 2015

Deadline: extended to 15 February 2016

The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (SWSC) plans a topical issue on "Brightness Variations of the Sun and Sun-like Stars and Resulting Influences on their Environments", to appear in 2016. This interdisciplinary issue will include contributions to the 2015 Sun-Climate Symposium and to the IAU General Assembly’s Focus Meeting 13 “Brightness Variations of the Sun and Sun-like Stars”. We welcome contributions that cover various aspects of solar and stellar magnetically driven variability, including among others:

Observations of solar and stellar brightness variability
Physical mechanisms and models of solar and stellar variability
The solar-stellar connection. Is the Sun a solar-type variable?
The impact of solar and stellar variability on their environment
Sun-Climate Connection: mechanisms, climate change
Future observing programmes and missions

Manuscripts must be submitted via the SWSC online submission tool.
Note that the publication fees, presently 500€+tax, will increase to 700€+tax for manuscripts submitted after 31^st December 2015.

All manuscripts will be peer reviewed according to the quality standards of international scientific journals. The type of contributions must fit the style of SWSC. All manuscripts should contain enough new insight, present the results against a properly referenced background of existing work, and present adequate evidence that supports the conclusions. Accepted papers are published in electronic format only, and are freely available to everyone via the SWSC web site. SWSC offers the possibility to include electronic material, such as animations, movies, codes and data.

The guest editors for this Topical Issue are:

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SWSC Impact factor 2014: 2.558

Details: Published on 19 June 2015

Thomson-Reuters just published the 2014 Impact Factors. The 2-year Impact Factor for SWSC, based on articles published in SWSC in 2012 and 2013 and cited in 2014, is 2.558 (2013: 2.519). The Immediacy Index, based on articles published in SWSC in 2014 and cited in 2014, is 0.857 (2013: 0.600). As SWSC is a rather new journal, 2013 was the first year that Thomson-Reuters listed it in its Journal Citation Report.

12th Edition of the European Space Weather Week, Ostend, Belgium, 23-27 November 2015

Details: Published on 03 June 2015

The 12^th Edition of the European Space Weather Week will take place 23-27 November 2015 at the Kursaal in Ostend, Belgium. The ESWW will again adopt the central aim of bringing together the diverse groups in Europe working on different aspects of Space Weather. This includes but is not limited to the scientific community, the engineering community, applications developers, service providers and service end users.

Registration for participants is now open. For more information click here.

Topical Issue "Scientific Challenges in Thermosphere-Ionosphere Forecasting ", deadline extended to 1 June 2015

Details: Published on 21 April 2015

Deadline extended to 1 June 2015

The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (SWSC) plans a topical issue on "Scientific Challenges in Thermosphere-Ionosphere Forecasting", to appear in 2015. This issue is an outcome of the Technical Interchange Meeting that was held at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena on 21-23 October, 2014. The meeting was organized around a discussion of scientific challenges in understanding magnetospheric, ionospheric and atmospheric processes that are relevant to forecasting space weather. The focus was on scientific issues that need to be addressed to reduce uncertainty of space weather predictions in the thermosphere-ionosphere and make them feasible, rather than on operational space weather forecasting. The meeting brought together solar, magnetosphere, ionosphere, atmosphere and space weather scientists and modeling experts. This Topical Issue is open to all contributors and is not limited to workshop participants.

The main broad topics of the meeting and Topical Issue are:

Model inputs from the solar wind to tidal forcing, and means of forecasting inputs
Scales of temporal and spatial evolution, and predictability, of the global thermosphere and ionosphere
Validation datasets: which observations provide crucial contributions to understanding the physics behind thermosphere-ionosphere forecasting
Forecastable quantities in the thermosphere and ionosphere

The submission deadline is extended to 1 June 2015. Final submission should be directly to SWSC, via its online submission tool
http://www.swsc-journal.org/author-information/instructions-for-authors

All manuscripts will be peer reviewed according to the quality standards of international scientific journals. The type of contributions must fit the style of SWSC. The Journal is open access and is listed in Thomson Reuters Web of Science. The Journal requires authors to pay the article processing fee of €500 for manuscripts received in 2015 and accepted for publication. Accepted papers are published in electronic format only, and are freely available to everyone via the SWSC web site. SWSC offers the possibility to include electronic material, such as animations, movies, codes and data.

The guest editors for this Topical Issue are:

Anthony J. Mannucci (Anthony.J. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) Lead Guest Editor
Yue Deng (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Olga P. Verkhoglyadova (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

For questions regarding this topical issue, please contact any of the guest editors. For questions concerning the submission process the Editorial Office (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) should be contacted.

Topical Issue "Statistical Challenges in Solar Information Processing", deadline extended to 31 January 2015

Details: Published on 21 April 2015

Deadline extended to 31 January 2015

The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (SWSC) plans a topical issue on "Statistical Challenges in Solar Information Processing", to appear in 2015. This interdisciplinary issue is an outcome of the 7^th Solar Information Processing workshop which brought together solar and space scientists, statisticians, and data processing experts who addressed the multiple data analysis challenges of solar and heliospheric missions. This Topical Issue will focus on how statistical inference and information processing can help addressing research problems in solar and heliospheric science, and provide methodologies to solve them.

Authors of oral and poster presentations given at the workshop are hereby encouraged to submit manuscripts. However, this Topical Issue is open to all contributors, it is not limited to workshop participants.

We are presently investigating the possibility to collect in a textbook all articles that are submitted and accepted on time, as it was done for past editions of Topical Issues related to Solar Information Processing workshops.

This Topical Issue will address, among others:

Optimal combination of in situ and imaging data
Tracking of small-scale magnetic features
Prediction of solar eruptions and solar disturbances
Characterisation of the solar wind turbulence
Methodological issues such as Bayesian inference
Challenges in present and future instrumentation

Important deadlines are:

22 SEPTEMBER 2014: declarations of intent, with preliminary title and list of authors should be sent by email to Thierry Dudok de Wit (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Extended to 31 JANUARY 2015: final submission, directly to SWSC, via its online submission tool. Note that the publication fees, presently 300€, will increase to 500€ for manuscripts submitted after 31^st December 2014.

All manuscripts will be peer reviewed according to the quality standards of international scientific journals. The type of contributions must fit the style of SWSC. All manuscripts should contain enough new insight, present the results against a properly referenced background of existing work, and present adequate evidence that supports the conclusions. We also welcome articles on statistical methods with a potential to improve data analysis beyond current practices. Accepted papers are published in electronic format only, and are freely available to everyone via the SWSC web site. SWSC offers the possibility to include electronic material, such as animations, movies, codes and data.

The guest editors for this Topical Issue are

Craig DeForest (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Thierry Dudok de Wit (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Véronique Delouille (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Jack Ireland (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Derek Lamb (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Fraser Watson (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Alex Young (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

EDP Sciences signed an agreement to preserve Journals with Portico (April 2015)

Details: Published on 15 April 2015

EDP Sciences is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Portico to provide a permanent archive of the e-content for many of their key journals. Through this agreement, institutions participating in Portico’s E-Journal Preservation Service will be assured continued access to EDP Sciences content for generations of their scholars in the future.

Current data will be sent to Portico as soon as the e-journal is published, and a full list of the journals committed to the Portico archive is available at http://www.portico.org/digital-preservation/who-participates-in-portico/participating-publishers/edp.

For more information read Press Release (PDF).

12th Edition of the European Space Weather Week, Belgium, 23-27 November 2015

Details: Published on 09 April 2015

The 12^th Edition of the European Space Weather Week will take place 23-27 November 2015 in Belgium. The ESWW will again adopt the central aim of bringing together the diverse groups in Europe working on different aspects of Space Weather. This includes but is not limited to the scientific community, the engineering community, applications developers, service providers and service end users.

The deadline for submissions for the sessions and working meetings is 13 May 2015.

For more information click here.

SWSC Now available on ePUB format! (February 2015)

Details: Published on 17 February 2015

EDP Sciences is pleased to announce the introduction of the ePUB digital format for all SWSC articles.

We have extended our existing suite of publication formats (PDF, HTML) to include ePUB, offering a range of formats to suit our readers varying needs.

ePUB is a format used for digital documents, it will allow scientific articles to be read on most of specialized eReaders and tablets.

The ePUB version will allow to download scientific texts and to read them very easily in an offline environment. ePUB adapts to suit different screen sizes, making for optimum text display and greater reading comfort.

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